Historical Figure
Mairead Maguire
b. 1944
Northern Irish peace activist (born 1944)
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Birth
1944 January 27, 1944 →Biography
Mairead Maguire, also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Maguire and Williams were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize.
Timeline
en Nueva York (Estados Unidos), la irlandesa Mairead Maguire y el argentino Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, ambos premios nobel de la paz, junto con un centenar de catedráticos de Estados Unidos y Canadá, ante la negativa de la organización estadounidense de derechos humanos Human Rights Watch, solicitan por segunda vez ―la primera fue el 12 de mayo de 2014― que expulse de su junta directiva a Javier Solana (ex secretario general de la OTAN) y a todas las personas involucradas con la CIA (Agencia Central de Inteligencia) o con el Gobierno de Estados Unidos. Esta segunda carta directamente no fue respondida.
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